Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
OSCAR WILDESome things are more precious because they don’t last long.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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